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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreg Abbott left no tip to restaturant servers and he had a party of twenty folks
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Replying to @JonBoyle18 and @Joannafersulli
My niece was a server at The Rainforest Cafe in Grapevine, Texas. Abbott came in with a party of twenty. Two servers. Not one dime for a tip. His wife told my niece they should be honored to serve him.
My niece, single mom, came home in tears.
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Fkn cheap bastard
Meadowoak
(5,546 posts)iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)you can shit on the little people.
Maybe
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,812 posts)Now, watch them yell about class warfare.
at140
(6,110 posts)ESAD Abott.
Meadowoak
(5,546 posts)Hekate
(90,690 posts)
I NEVER told anybody off to their face. That went double when I was a single mom.
TexasTowelie
(112,202 posts)The arrogant nature of that comment is an indicator that Greg deserves to be voted out office.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)roody
(10,849 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)when TFG says people will get more business merely because they did something for him as a justification for not paying.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)dalton99a
(81,490 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)They have no business being in government! Fuck them!
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Get him on record that he stiffed these waitstaff.
When I waited tables I follow 2 groups out to the damn parking lot. And I got my tips too. It's funny how if you confront these people they act all sheepish and give you money.
KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)HEY, did any of you guys see who stole the tips you left me?
Volaris
(10,271 posts)And the bartender wasn't having it. She walked it back over to the guys blackjack table and told him he forgot his change.
'Oh no, that was your tip.'
'That's not MY tip, and if I ever see you do that to any other bartenders in here again, security is GOING to remove you from the premises.
For rest of the night, her tip was the rest of the 10 bill. Per beer.
KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)not the $9.95 stuff.
pandr32
(11,584 posts)It certainly won't help Abbott's re-election chances.
ARandomPerson
(2,406 posts)For example, lots of restaurants add a standard gratuity (15-20%) to a bill for a large party (such as 20 people). Are we sure that the complaint isn't simply that the Abbott party didn't add a tip *beyond* the standard gratuity? if that's the case, things are much more murky. Best not to go off just based on a tweet.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)automatically onto the bills for large parties.
Not sure what happens in Texas, but...
W_HAMILTON
(7,867 posts)I'm sure I don't need to inform you of this.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)if we want to tip 25%. Or more.
pandr32
(11,584 posts)Though it seems unlikely that Abbot's wife would have behaved with such callousness if that were the case. The servers wouldn't have likely complained either.
Meadowoak
(5,546 posts)Goes to the heart of what Abbott thinks of working people in Texas.
pandr32
(11,584 posts)Texas has wealth. I think Canada's Alberta is similar, but Alberta has free health care and no sales or payroll tax.
prodigitalson
(2,422 posts)Dog bights man?
Genuine newsworthy Headline
Counterintuitively, Abbott doesn't stiff wait staff
czarjak
(11,277 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)I'd say it's a dead heat.
Maker sure your niece tells that story all over the place. That clueless cheap bastard needs to be outed as a clueless cheap bastard. Oh, and tell her to call Beto's local campaign office. Maybe restaurant managers will tell him to honor somebody else.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)What a cheap ass mofo.
Rhiannon12866
(205,404 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,690 posts)Look at all the business you'll make. You should be happy I gave you the opportunity and be honored I stiffed you.
msongs
(67,406 posts)Kali
(55,008 posts)but when I was waiting tables, parties over 6 had a gratuity added automatically. good folks leave more on the table, but still...
soldierant
(6,874 posts)would be a landslide defeat.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Chefs and Servers have special techniques for taking care of customers who are raging idiots or stiff the Server.
Yep.....special techniques alright.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Can he?
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)These people think their feces doesn't stink and that they can do, or say, anything and get away with it.
If only one republinut recognized him and sang his praises that's all he'll remember about the place.
I imagine he'll be dining there again within two weeks.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)I know my boss screwed up once and got in an argument with the back-of-house staff at a restaurant we were having lunch at, and I had to tel him No. A hundred percent, no. You can never ever eat there again, no matter what.
Dont fuck with strangers who prepare your food, man.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)It would never occur to these republinazis that someone who they consider "beneath them" would dare do anything in retribution for their abhorrent behavior.
niyad
(113,308 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)I was at the same firm for a while in the 1980s. Greg was part of the toxic tort defense team who bragged about cheating widows and orphans out of what due to them
Skittles
(153,160 posts)or so I heard....
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)It is written by a person who was a paralegal at the firm Greg started at. That firm had issues and fell apart in the early 1990s.
I still have not figured out why Greg is running so scared. Greg is pushing policies that fine with the Q-nuts and the more right-wing part of the base. These same policies will hurt Greg in the general election.
There are some good details on the settlement Greg got due to a falling tree. I never got all of the details of this settlement or the accident that left Greg in a wheel chair.
Link to tweet
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/who-is-greg-abbott/
Moore was covered for $1 million or so in his homeowners policy, Riddle recalled. A million dollars didnt stretch that far if you were damaged for life, he said. But he discovered that Moore had paid a tree company that was part of a large national chain to do some work on the oak. Riddle could then assert that the repairs might have been done improperlythat more attention had been paid to caring for the trees canopy than to protecting and stabilizing the roots. Now Riddle had not one but two deep-pocketed defendants. Through what was then known as joint and several liability, a plaintiff could recover damages from multiple parties so long as some responsibility was established.
By 1986, Abbott had completed his rehab. He wasnt walking, but he was moving forward in other ways. Riddle had negotiated an impressive settlement that would support his client for the rest of his life. The estimated total of $3 million (about $8 million today) began with an initial lump-sum payment of $300,000 (about $770,000 in todays dollars), followed by another lump sum of $100,000 in 1989. Abbott would continue to get lump-sum payments every three years, with the last payment of $740,020 scheduled for November 1, 2022a nice supplement to his $153,750 annual governors salary. Additionally, in 1986 Abbott started receiving $5,000 a month (almost $13,000 today) with a built-in annual increase of 4 percent for the remainder of his lifetime. It was all tax-free.
I have never been impressed with Greg's intelligence and I am hopeful that Greg will continue to push homophobic policies that will help Beto
Skittles
(153,160 posts)they both make me sick, like Trump they are utterly VILE people
thank you for the article, Texas Monthly does good work
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)DeathSantis has just adopted regulations to block gender affirming care for trans youth. Greg came up with this cruelty a while back
Skittles
(153,160 posts)disgusting
Norbert
(6,040 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)Many places do on every tab.
onenote
(42,703 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,072 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)I'm having a hard time believing he dines at Rainforest Cafe or any chain restaurant
Ms. Toad
(34,072 posts)It's something we'd love to be true - the very kind of stuff which is made up, attributed to a friend of a friend, and ultimately turns out to be completely made up - usually after we've made fools ourselves by repeating and spreading false junk.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)if true.
Lemon Lyman
(1,349 posts)How much you wanna' bet the worker doesn't get fired over this being in the news now too?
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)His cruelty is the badge that makes him a honored republican.
That man is small.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Knew who they were because they came in from time to time and always left a calling card on top of their tip. One day they were seated in my section, and I said I wouldn't serve them. I was told to "Do it or clock out". I clocked out.
I did not have the burdens a single parent would have, so it was easier for me to take a stand.
Even still, I would not have waited on Abbott either. It's not the least bit surprising that he stiffed the servers and as odious as the comment made by his wife is, that it was said is also not surprising either.
Scum is scum.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)really cost me anything to leave.
But I just couldn't wait on them. I thought even allowing them in the restaurant was wrong.
They harassed the staff and other customers, but the management didn't seem to care because they came in a large group, which meant a hefty bill.
Thank you, though.
Pisses me off when people don't tip.
LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)
and lose his Republican street cred?
Next youll want him to expand Medicaid for Texans!
DFW
(54,384 posts)If the staff waiting on Abbott and his party came away with nothing at all, this deserves to be on page one of every paper in Texas this morning. We can be sure it will be mentioned in Dallas, Houston, Austin and El Paso, but those are blue islands in a red sea. This needs to be made known statewide.
former9thward
(32,009 posts)I can't find the story anywhere. Google lists DU as the number one source and Reddit as number two. Why is that? I doubt it happened. A governor, no matter who they are, is not going to handle the bill for that many people. They all have aides to do that.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The company I work for owns either 10 or 11 restaurants depending on whether you want to count our "pedal powered pub" (yes, bicycle themed) with a full menu as a bar or a restaurant. Each of these places has a line at the bottom of the menu: groups of six or more have a 15 percent gratuity automatically added to their check. A lot of people will tip above that because 15 percent is the tip of the past.
Most of the places I go do it too.
This doesn't excuse Abbott's Karen-like wife's nasty comment, but if this restaurant doesn't do automatic gratuity for large groups I'd recommend the niece move to a restaurant that does.
onenote
(42,703 posts)to the bill for large parties.
Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)"A Suggested Gratuity of 15% - 20% is customary. The amount of gratuity is always discretionary."
So they apparently don't have a policy of adding a manditory tip to the bill with large parties. They f'ing should change this policy.
former9thward
(32,009 posts)Goodheart
(5,324 posts)former9thward
(32,009 posts)If the story is true why is no one running it?
VGNonly
(7,492 posts)between a republican and a canoe?
canoes sometimes tip
Pisces
(5,599 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Much too stupid to know that not tipping is ....'VERY, VERY, VERY STUPID
but.......... when he loses the election, he will learn his lesson. I wonder if Abbott knows how insensitive this moment is.
.............. Abbott is total SH*T. ...AND HE PROVED IT TO EVERYONE!!!
Hotler
(11,421 posts)tip off of another table.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)https://www.rainforestcafe.com/location/rainforest-cafe-grapevine-tx/
This seems to suggest that there is no automatic tip added for parties of a given size.
pwb
(11,269 posts)other body fluids in their restaurant food eh?
EnergizedLib
(1,895 posts)People like her are your husbands constituents, not his servants.
I know a lot of things is done backwards in your state, but thats how it goes.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)NO party over six is not getting a mandatory tip added to their check. Full stop.
Cadfael
(1,297 posts)iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Cadfael
(1,297 posts)It means there is no tip automatically included in the bill no matter what the party size
People upthread kept quoting the website - and yet some kept calling bullshit - I thought it might help our more visual learners to be able to see it themselves
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)The best slave is the one who thinks he is free. Johann von Goethe
Hey, Abbott! Your days as plantation master are numbered. The slaves are waking up.
mnhtnbb
(31,389 posts)Sounds like a crap restaurant to me. Probably owned by a$$hole Republicans who aren't looking out for their wait staff.
Goodheart
(5,324 posts)The Lake Buena Vista restaurant in that chain says that an 18% tip will be automatically added to parties of six or more.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)I am a bit skeptical about this.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Takket
(21,568 posts)let's just take this with a grain of salt unless someone confirms it.
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)No wonder they love Trump so much.